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This Exmoor pony book is a rich feast of all things to do with this special breed: turning its pages may bring the reader to Exmoor ponies harnessed for warfare; to meetings with a literary legend and a famous cowboy; to paintings by Britain’s greatest equestrian artists; to stories of Exmoor ponies travelling to the Antipodes; to pony sales from central London to deepest Exmoor; to the Exmoor Pony Society secretary who became a horse trainer for Her Majesty the Queen; to lyrical poems; to how one Exmoor pony lived with bison; to threats from pony-rustling; to pony sculpting; to tales of ponies being a shepherd’s pillow or transport for the rabbit-catcher.

Within The Exmoor Pony Chronicles are answers to questions such as: did the Aclands truly conserve Exmoor’s indigenous pony? Where were Exmoor foals hidden upstairs in a pub? Who crossed an Exmoor pony with a wild ass? Can Exmoor ponies see pixies? Did soldiers really use Exmoor’s ponies for target practice in WWII?

All this and more can be found in The Exmoor Pony Chronicles.

ISBN: 9780857043153
Published by Halsgrove, October 2017

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